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Title: "Built-In" Plant Protection: Screening Azalea Cultivars for Resistance to the Azalea Lace Bug, Stephanitis pyrioides

Author
item Kirker, Grant
item BOYD, DAVID
item Pounders Jr, Cecil
item Sampson, Blair
item Spiers, James

Submitted to: Ornamental Workshop on Diseases and Insects
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/14/2008
Publication Date: 11/14/2008
Citation: Kirker, G.T., Boyd, D.W., Pounders Jr, C.T., Sampson, B.J., Spiers, J.M. 2008. "Built-In" Plant Protection: Screening Azalea Cultivars for Resistance to the Azalea Lace Bug, Stephanitis pyrioides. Ornamental Workshop on Diseases and Insects poster.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Azalea Lace bug (ALB) are a major pest of azaleas in the southeast. Adults and nymphs cause visible damage on the upper leaf surface. Host plant resistance to ALB provides “built-in” plant protection and allows for reduced dependency on pesticide applications for both growers and consumers. We have observed that “Fourth of July” (male seed parent of the Encore Autumn™ azalea series) appears resistant to ALB. In this study, 33 commercially available azalea cultivars were screened in laboratory bioassays to determine ALB preference to these selected cultivars . The rankings below are based on our results.